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Roaring Twenties 1920 - 1929
Prohibition in the United States 1920-01-17 - 1933-12-05

People

Joseph Stalin age 45
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Calvin Coolidge age 52
President - United States
George V age 59
King - United Kingdom
Friedrich Ebert age 53
Reich President - Germany
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 54
King - Italy
Emperor Taishō age 45
Emperor - Japan
Albert I of Belgium age 49
King - Belgium
Gaston Doumergue age 61
President - France
Alexander I of Yugoslavia age 35
King - Yugoslavia
Álvaro Obregón age 44
President - Mexico
Ahmad Shah Qajar age 26
Shah - Iran
Fuad I of Egypt age 56
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Zewditu age 48
Empress - Ethiopia
Chen Duxiu age 44
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Artur Bernardes age 49
President - Brazil
Cao Kun age 61
President - Republic of China
Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso age 63
President - Cuba
José María Orellana age 52
President - Guatemala
Benito Mussolini age 41
Prime Minister - Italy
Pierre de Coubertin age 61
President - International Olympic Committee
Ramsay MacDonald age 57
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Alexei Rykov age 43
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars - Soviet Union
Wilhelm Marx age 61
Chancellor - Germany
Édouard Herriot age 52
Prime Minister - France
Katō Takaaki age 64
Prime Minister - Japan
Saad Zaghloul age 67
Prime Minister - Egypt
W. T. Cosgrave age 44
Taoiseach - Ireland
Władysław Grabski age 50
Prime Minister - Poland
J. B. M. Hertzog age 58
Prime Minister - South Africa
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 48
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Ljubomir Davidović age 60
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
William Howard Taft age 67
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Deng Xiaoping age 20
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 25
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 38
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 23
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 28
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 24
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Arthur Henderson age 61
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Hans Luther age 45
Reichsminister - Germany
Charles Evans Hughes age 62
Secretary of State - United States
Andrew Mellon age 69
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Harlan F. Stone age 51
Attorney General - United States
Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford age 56
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden age 60
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
John W. Weeks age 64
Secretary of War - United States
John L. Hines age 56
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
J. H. Thomas age 49
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 29
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Sun Yat-sen age 57
Chairman - Kuomintang
H. H. Asquith age 72
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Stanley Baldwin age 57
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Éamon de Valera age 41
President - Sinn Féin
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield age 65
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 81
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Clark McReynolds age 62
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood age 52
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Zacharias Richard Mahabane age 43
President - African National Congress
James M. Beck age 63
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. age 37
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
Charles Curtis age 64
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 66
Senate - United States
David Lloyd George age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Eden age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Cordell Hull age 52
House of Representatives - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 46
House of Representatives - United States
John Nance Garner age 55
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James F. Byrnes age 42
House of Representatives - United States
Fred M. Vinson age 34
House of Representatives - United States
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leo Amery age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Morrison age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Lansbury age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Adamson age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kingsley Wood age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ogden L. Mills age 40
House of Representatives - United States
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 6
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
J. R. Clynes age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 29
House of Representatives - United States
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aylmer Hunter-Weston age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Laming Worthington-Evans age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Al Smith age 50
Governor of New York - United States
Friend Richardson age 58
Governor of California - United States
Albert Ritchie age 48
Governor of Maryland - United States
Thomas C. McRae age 72
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Channing H. Cox age 44
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Vic Donahey age 51
Governor of Ohio - United States
E. Lee Trinkle age 48
Governor of Virginia - United States
Pat Morris Neff age 52
Governor of Texas - United States
Emmett Forest Branch age 50
Governor of Indiana - United States
George Sebastian Silzer age 54
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Clifford Walker age 47
Governor of Georgia - United States
Barber Conable age 1
New York State Senate - United States
Adolf Hitler age 35
Führer - Nazi Party
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 43
President - Turkey
Pius XI age 67
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 38
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 44
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 52
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 66
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 54
King - Denmark
Ferdinand I of Romania age 59
King - Kingdom of Romania
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg age 59
President - Finland
Vajiravudh age 43
King - Thailand
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 28
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 25
King - Eswatini
Jānis Čakste age 65
President - Latvia
Ugyen Wangchuck age 62
King - Bhutan
Michael Hainisch age 66
President - Austria
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 39
President - Lithuania
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 54
Prince - Monaco
Juan Vicente Gómez age 67
President - Venezuela
William, Prince of Albania age 48
King - Albania
Stanisław Wojciechowski age 55
President - Poland
Yusef of Morocco age 42
Sultan - Morocco
Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear age 55
President - Argentina
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 24
Queen - Tonga
Augusto Leguía age 61
President - Peru
Charles D. B. King age 49
President - Liberia
Pavlos Kountouriotis age 70
President - Greece
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 38
Sultan - Oman
Sisowath of Cambodia age 84
King - Cambodia
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading age 63
Viceroy - British Raj
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 39
Emir - Kuwait
Manuel Teixeira Gomes age 64
President - Portugal
Bautista Saavedra age 54
President - Bolivia
Eligio Ayala age 44
President - Paraguay
Pedro Nel Ospina Vázquez age 66
President - Colombia
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 69
Emir - Qatar
Gonzalo Córdova age 61
President - Ecuador
Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno age 65
President - Costa Rica
Horacio Vásquez age 63
President - Dominican Republic
Ernest Chuard age 67
President - Switzerland
Louis Borno age 59
President - Haiti
Luis Altamirano age 57
President - Chile
Alfonso Quiñónez Molina age 50
President - El Salvador
Vicente Tosta age 43
President - Honduras
Bartolomé Martínez age 51
President - Nicaragua
Abd-al Karim age 27
Emir - Afghanistan
İsmet İnönü age 40
Prime Minister - Turkey
Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella age 54
Prime Minister - Spain
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 49
Prime Minister - Canada
S. M. Bruce age 41
Prime Minister - Australia
Fan S. Noli age 42
Prime Minister - Albania
Thorvald Stauning age 50
Prime Minister - Denmark
Lauri Ingman age 56
Prime Minister - Finland
István Bethlen age 49
Prime Minister - Hungary
Johan Ludwig Mowinckel age 53
Prime Minister - Norway
Ion I. C. Brătianu age 60
Prime Minister - Romania
Ignaz Seipel age 48
Chancellor - Austria
Ernst Trygger age 66
Prime Minister - Sweden
Georges Theunis age 51
Prime Minister - Belgium
Aleksandar Tsankov age 45
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Jón Magnússon age 65
Prime Minister - Iceland
Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck age 50
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Themistoklis Sofoulis age 64
Prime Minister - Greece
Émile Reuter age 50
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Yasin Hashimi age 42
Prime Minister - Iraq
William Massey age 68
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Francesco Buhagiar age 48
Prime Minister - Malta
Alfredo Rodrigues Gaspar age 58
Prime Minister - Portugal
Voldemārs Zāmuēls age 52
Prime Minister - Latvia
Gustav Schädler age 40
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Anto Gvozdenović age 71
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Viliami Tungī Mailefihi age 36
Prime Minister - Tonga
John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe age 64
Governor-General - New Zealand
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster age 58
Governor-General - Australia
Marcel Olivier age 44
Governor-General - Madagascar
Harry S. Truman age 40
Judge of Jackson County, Missouri
Albert Einstein age 45
Ronald Reagan age 13
Nelson Mandela age 6
Mahatma Gandhi age 54
Pablo Picasso age 42
Charlie Chaplin age 35
Winston Churchill age 49
Thomas Edison age 77
Sigmund Freud age 68
John F. Kennedy age 7
Marie Curie age 56
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 42
Rabindranath Tagore age 63
Mao Zedong age 30